User guide / Help and reference Railbed, in plain language
A short reference for the words you will see in checkout, the dashboard and your payment records.
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# Payment and checkout termsTerm Meaning Term Payment linkMeaning A request for one payment with a set amount; useful for an invoice or depositTerm Checkout pageMeaning A reusable product page; every buyer creates a separate paymentTerm Pricing tableMeaning A reusable checkout with several plans and optional two-way price choicesTerm Payment widgetMeaning A compact checkout placed inside your own websiteTerm Buy buttonMeaning A website button that opens a Railbed checkout in an overlayTerm Tracking linkMeaning A shareable, status-only view of a payment requestTerm ReferenceMeaning Your own invoice or order label, attached to a paymentTerm Payment IDMeaning Railbed's identifier for one payment, beginning with pay_Term OrderMeaning The purchase record containing items, totals, customer and one or more payment attempts; see Orders Term CustomerMeaning The purchase history associated with one email address in one mode; see Customers Term Payment attemptMeaning One try at paying an order; a retry can belong to the same orderTerm Success URLMeaning The thank-you destination opened from checkout after payment confirmationTerm Smart RoutingMeaning The checks and preferences that choose eligible card providers for a buyer, and the checkout setting that sends buyers straight to the top oneTerm ProviderMeaning The licensed service whose page takes the buyer's card details and payment
# Wallet and money termsTerm Meaning Term USDCMeaning The dollar-denominated stablecoin used for merchant settlementTerm PolygonMeaning The blockchain network used for that settlementTerm Self-custody walletMeaning A wallet whose private keys you controlTerm Payout walletMeaning Your saved public Polygon address for receiving settlementTerm Deposit addressMeaning A payment-specific intermediate address; it is not the wallet setting you should changeTerm SettlementMeaning The funds transfer associated with a confirmed paymentTerm Net receiptMeaning The reported amount that reached your wallet after applicable feesTerm Held paymentMeaning A payment marked Being reviewed or Underpaid because confirmation checks need attentionTerm UnderpaidMeaning A held payment whose only problem is that less than the full amount arrivedTerm Accept as paidMeaning Your explicit decision to accept an eligible held payment with the amount that arrived
# Integration termsTerm Meaning Term Test modeMeaning A separate environment of simulated payments; no card is chargedTerm Live modeMeaning The mode for real card paymentsTerm API keyMeaning A private credential that lets your server or plugin access Railbed in a specific mode, with full access or read onlyTerm AI agent connectionMeaning Access you approved for an AI agent (such as a coding assistant) to use your account's API in one mode, with full access or read only. You can disconnect it under Developers → AI agents ; see Connect an agent Term WebhookMeaning A signed notification from Railbed to a server when a payment event happensTerm Signing secretMeaning A private value your receiver uses to verify a webhookTerm FulfilmentMeaning Your delivery record, separate from payment status; see Orders and fulfilment Term IdempotencyMeaning Retrying the same operation without accidentally creating the same order's payment twice
For the meaning of a specific status and what to do next, see Payments and statuses . For API fields and event payloads, use the developer reference .
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